Myriopoda from the Andes of Ecuador. 143 
Hacienda of Antisana, 13,300 feet ; in the valley of Collanes, 
12,540 feet; and on Gorazon at an altitude of 12,000 feet. 
Trusting to the accuracy of Dr. Kohlrausch’s opinion on 
the question of the specific identity of Sc. sexspinosus and Sc. 
mexicanus , I was led into describing as new, under the name 
Meinerti , some specimens of a Scolopocryptops from Dominica 
which seemed identical with Sc. Miersii of Meinert, but 
which certainly were not Sc. Miersii of Newport. I now find 
that Dr. Kohlrausch was wrong in setting Sc. mexicanus as 
synonymous with Sc. sexspinosus , and that Sc. mexicanus was, 
apparently in consequence of that error, redescribed by 
Meinert as Sc. Miersii. 
Newportia dentata ) sp. n. 
Colour ochraceous ; head-plate and maxillary feet casta- 
neous. 
Head-plate somewhat quadrate; lateral margins nearly 
parallel, posterior margin lightly convex; marked with a 
relatively small number of large punctures and with very 
many minute close-set punctures ; shortly hirsute and fur- 
nished behind with two abbreviated sulci. Antennae pubes- 
cent, of moderate length, composed of seventeen segments ; 
maxillary feet normally formed, internally hirsute ; the ante- 
rior margin of the sternite almost straight and transverse, not 
dentate, but showing faint indications of a wide prosternal 
plate on each side; with a conspicuous seta on each side. 
First tergite marked behind the anterior margin with a con- 
spicuous semicircular groove and on each side of the middle 
line there runs backwards from this groove to the hinder 
margin a single longitudinal sulcus. The rest of the tergites 
except the last marked as in Cryptops with two conspicuous, 
longitudinal, parallel sulci, and on each side with one poste- 
riorly abbreviated oblique sulcus ; all the tergites except the 
last without raised margins. 
Anal tergite posteriorly impressed, hinder margin convexly 
produced in the middle ; sternite wide, with rounded posterior 
angles and very slightly concave posterior margin ; pleurae 
marked with many large pores, produced behind into a long, 
straight, slender process, terminated by a sharp spine ; anal 
legs short as compared with other members of the genus ; 
the femur triangular in section, armed beneath with four 
enormously long and strong spines which progressively 
increase in length and strength from before backwards ; the 
superior internal edge armed with a series of about six minute 
spinules ; patella nearly cylindrical, very slightly longer than 
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